I think the Atlas is in service, they just park the payload on top, like the old Saturn V, they can recover the sold boosters via parachute, and the liquid booster pushes into parking orbit and then goes away.
sas Scott A. Stewart, Web Application Developer Engineering Consulting Services, Ltd. (ECS) 14026 Thunderbolt Place, Suite 300 Chantilly, VA 20151 Phone: (703) 995-1737 Fax: (703) 834-5527 "Many thousands of years ago, a blue faced Pict stepped on a bloated sheep carcass... and thus the Pipes were born" .... the Scottish Rogues -----Original Message----- From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 02:16 pm To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Discovery Importance: Low More or less. The designs I remember seeing was more shuttle like, with a unmanned lifting body that was almost all cargo space. The idea was to load it up and launch it. Either a shuttle would recover it in orbit or it would dock with the ISS. The lifting body would then return to earth. larry On 7/26/05, SStewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it the Atlas Rocket that's basically the two sold boosters from the > shuttle and a liquid booster with the payload on top? > > sas > > Scott A. Stewart, > Web Application Developer > > Engineering Consulting Services, Ltd. (ECS) > 14026 Thunderbolt Place, Suite 300 > Chantilly, VA 20151 > Phone: (703) 995-1737 > Fax: (703) 834-5527 > > "Many thousands of years ago, a blue faced Pict stepped on a bloated sheep > carcass... and thus the Pipes were born" > > .... the Scottish Rogues > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 01:59 pm > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Discovery > Importance: Low > > As a heavy lift vehicle there's nothing else like it. > > There was a design for an unmanned version of the shuttle that was for > heavy lift, but that got axed too during the Ronnie Raygun years. > > larry > > On 7/26/05, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Nick wrote: > > > I think space exploration is a very useful endeavor. I would love to see > > > us > > > colonize other worlds. > > > > > > > I agree! I just think the shuttle does squat to further that goal. > > > > We should work towards a base on the moon similar to the ones on > > Antarctica. They should have telescopes, etc and we should be looking > > for ways to develop technology that allow humans to easily survive in > > those conditions. > > > > I don't see how the shuttle does anything for anything. > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:166516 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
